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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
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Frassati was born 6 April 1901, in Turin, into a prominent family, which owned the noted liberal newspaper, called La Stampa. His father, an Agnostic, had founded the newspaper and was active in national politics. He served in the Italian Senate and was later their Country's Ambassador to Germany.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (centre).
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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
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Frassati died 4 July 1925, of poliomyelitis. His family expected Turin's elite and political figures to come to offer their condolences and attend the funeral; they naturally expected to find many of his friends there as well. They were surprised, however, to find the streets of the City lined with thousands of mourners as the cortege passed by, out of the reverence felt for him among the many people he had directly helped during his brief life. He was buried in the family crypt in the Pollone Cemetery of the City.
Pier Giorgio Frassati,
in 1920, at his father's office.
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After this, Frassati's body was transferred, from the Family Crypt, for re-interment in the Cathedral of Turin, where it is available for Veneration by the public.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's Feast Day is celebrated on 4 July by the Dominican Order.
Frassati is the Namesake and Patron of Frassati Catholic Academy in Wauconda, Illinois, United States of America, a Middle School, founded in the Archdiocese of Chicago, in 2010, and also Frassati Catholic High School, which opened August 2013, in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America.
Pier Giorgio’s funeral, 1925.
Pier Giorgio’s funeral was a triumph. The streets of Turin were lined with a multitude of mourners, who were unknown to his family. The poor and the needy, whom he had served so unselfishly for seven years. Many of these people, in turn, were surprised to learn that the Saintly young man they knew had actually been the heir of the influential Frassati family.
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Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma, United States, awards the "Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Award" to its students who have performed an extraordinary level of service to others.
Frassati Australia, based in Brisbane, Australia, Venerates Pier Giorgio Frassati, as their Patron, and as a role model for young men. Frassati Australia engages young men in the Catholic Faith and encourages them to encounter Christ, through living an authentic Catholic Life in Brotherhood and Charity. Currently, there are at least three Frassati Houses in Brisbane, and around twelve young men in these Houses.
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